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VEHICLE WHEEL. No. 442,069. Patented Deo. 2, 1890.

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PATENT OEEICE.

HENRY Q. MAURINO, OF ALBUQUERQUE, TERRITORY OF NEV MEXICO,

ASSIGNOR OF PLACE.

ONE-FOURTH TO CHARLES lV. KENNEDY, OF SAME VEHICLE-WHEEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 442,069, dated December 2, 1890.

Application filed October 2, 1890. Serial No. 366,856. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY Q. MAURINO, of Albuquerque, in the county of Bernalillo and Territory of New Mexico, have invented a new and useful Vehicle-Vheel, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

rlhis invention relates to an improvement in vehiclewheels of a type wherein the hub is mainly metallic, and has for its object to produce a composite wheel-hub and spokes of peculiar conformation, whereby the spokes are securely retained in the hub and adapted to be radially projected so as to tighten the wheel-rim in the tire.

`To these ends my invention consists in certain features of construction and combinations of parts, as is hereinafter described, and indicated in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section ot the wheel-hub on the line l l in Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is afront side elevation of the wheel-hub with broken spokes therein, taken on the line 2 2 in Eig. l.l Fig. 3 is a plan View of the Wheelhub broken and inserted spokes in section, taken on the line 3 3 in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of ahub broken, showing a slghtlymoditied form of construction taken on the line Il l of Fig. 5. Fig. 5 is a transverse broken section of the form of hub shown in Fig. 4, taken on the line 5 5 in said figure, and inserted spokes broken; and Fig. 6 is a detached perspective view of a novel form of spoke used with the improved wheelhub.

The elongated cylindrical box A of the composite wheel-hub that contains the major features of the invention is of a suitable diameter in its bore to fit an axle-spindle of preferred size (not shown) and is diamctrieally enlarged at a near the inner end of the hub, to accommodate the collar which usually defines the inner extremity of the spindle. Upon the exterior surface of the enlargement a on the box A a concentric sleeve B is secured by one of its ends, thereby producing an annular channel between the sleeve and box, Which is filled by the packing-shell (l, that is formed of Wood or other suitable material.

The free end of the sleeve B, which represents the outer end of the wheelhub, is threaded, and on it is placed loosely a rin gh, that has an annular groove formed on its inner face, as shown in Eig. l. On the other end of the sleeve B, which is secured upon the box A, a collar cis aflixed, which collar is grooved on its inner face in a manner similar to the groove in the ring b.

The two 'metallic hub-sections D are alike in form, and consist of centrally-apertured disks, which are adapted to t loosely upon the sleeve B, the bore of each hub-section being slightly enlarged in conical form from the outer toward the inner face ot' said sections, as represented in Fig. l. The adjacent faces of the hub-sections D are parallel and at right angies to the body of the sleeve B when mounted on it, and, as Will be seen in Fig. l,the outer upper corner of the hub-section is removed and the peripheral surface incurved, so as to afford a neat appearance and proper conformation.

A sufficient space is allowed between the hubsections D to adapt them to laterally clamp the inserted ends of the spokes E, which latter will be further described, and to facilitate the introduction and proper support of the series of spokes radial V-shaped grooves are formed in the inner faces of the hub-sections at evenly-spaced intervals.

As represented in Fig. (i, the spokes E, which are of like form, have their bodies rounded and tapered from the tenon ends d, that enter the hub, to dowel ends e, which engage a Wheel rim or felly. The tenon (Z on each spoke E is substantially square in crosssection on the line orar in Figs. 3 and 6. Its opposite angular corners g being parallel throughout the length of the tenen, are of proper dimensions to tit closely within the radial angular grooves c', provided and oppositely located in the hub-sections D.

Between the spokes E evenly-divided channels are formed in the hub-sections Don their exterior incurved faces, said grooves or channels being rounded in cross-section to adapt them to form seats for thc einbedment of the similarly-formed bars h, which are joined in pairs at their upper ends by the transverse bolts h, each pair of bars and its connectingbolt constituting a saddle-frame. Thelower ends of the embedded curved bars 7L are located in the annular grooves formed in the collar c and ring t), and upon the outer face of the latter-named piece the sand-band F is made to bear, said band having an interior thread that engages the projecting threaded end of the sleeve B. tapered into wedge form on the corners, which are at right angles to the corners g and are also rounded on the lower ends of the tenons, as represented in Figs. 2 and 5.

A radially-undulated endless band G is provided that is properly proportioned to the size of parts it engages, which bandis adapted to lie between the hub-sections D and embrace the wedge-shaped bodies of the spoke-tenons (l, that are seated on the inner return bent portions t' of the undulating band, the outer bendsm therein being supported on the transverse bolts 7L', that connect the curved bars 7i in pairs, as before stated.

lf the spokes E are insertedin arrordinary felly that is banded in the usual way by atire,

(not shown,) it is evident that the revoluble' movement of the band F to screwit upon the sleeve B will compress the engaged lower ends.

preserve the concentricity of an engaged felly A in an obvious manner.

In Figs. 4c and 5 a modified form for the saddle-frames which support 'theundulating band G is shown, which consists in integrally uniting thecurved bars h at their upper extremities, the joining-web a being produced from the same material of which the bars 'r arev composed, said webs being-preferably seated in transverse grooves formed inthe periph-eral edges of the hub-sections D inA alignment with the channels wherein thev curved side bars h are embedded and engaging the outer undulations of the band, as vat m in Fig. 5. l

By the provision of the shell @which should be made of slightly-elastic materiahthepercussion sustained when the wheel :is in use is absorbed, the peculiar formation ofthe hub-` sections D contributing to suoli a result-,while they retain the spokes E from rattle or lateral divergence.

Having thus described my invention, I clai in as new and desire to secure Aby Letters Patent- 1. A vehicle-wheel having its hub provided The spoke-tenons' d are* with an undulating endless band whereon the spokes of the wheel areseated and adapted to be radially projected, substantially as set forth.

2. A vehicle-hub having its hub-box engaged by a concentric sleeve whereon two loose circular hub-sections are mounted, and further-provided with a radially-undulating endless band located between the hub-sections and supported on spaced radial saddleframes, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination,with a hub-box, a concentric sleeve secured by one end to the box, and a collar afIiXed on this end of the sleeve, of two circular hub-sections,a radially-undulating endless band, a series of spaced saddleframes which engage the band, and means to compress the saddle-fram es laterally and distend the endless band, substantially'as setv forth.

l. Theeombination, with a hub-box, a concentric sleeve secured-by one end to the box and having` its free end threaded, and a collar lfixed to the fast end of the sleeve, of two circular hub-sections, a radially-undulating endless band, a series of spaced saddle-frames which engage the band, a ring on thefree end ot' the sleeve, and an interiorly-threaded sandband engaging the sleeve, substantially as set forth.

5. The combination, with a hub-box, a concentric sleeve secured by one end to the box, and a collar affixed on this end of the sleeve, of two circularhub-sections between which Va series of spokes are retained in spaced adjustment, a radially-undulating endless band,ftbe

series of spokes being seated in'undulations of the-band, a series of spaced saddle-frames which alternate with the spokes and engageV the band between said spokes, and meansto compress the saddle-f rames laterally and dis.- tend the endless band, substantially as set forth.

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(5. The combination,with an elongated hub-- box which is cylindricall y enlarged at one end; a concentric sleeve thereon Vwhich is attached to the enlarged portion of lthe box yand is eX- teriorly threaded at its other end,vand an ini;

tervening lining-shell ofslightly-'elastic material, of two similar circularhub-sections which are'grooved alike on their parallel adjacent radial faces for spoke-tenons, a radially-'undulated endless band, a series of spokes vlocated within undulationsof this band, a se-1 ries of saddle-frames which alternate with`A thespokes and engage the undulating band,

a fixed collar that abuts on the saddle-frameends on one side of the spokes, a ring on the sleeve which impinges-'on the other ends ofv the saddle-framesandan interiorly-threaded 

